2018-06-20 at

Concepts: MBTI vs Computation

Rehashed some old thoughts in a Facebook comment:

The MBTI model maps quite nicely to two concepts in computation - "data" versus "operations on data".

The Perceiving pair of functions [Sensing / Intuition] regards the data structure that a mind prefers to use in thought: does the structure contain dense sensory/concrete data ("more S"), or is it sparse, and relatively abstract ("more N")?

The Judging pair of functions [Thinking / Feeling] regards operations on those data structures: are there many iterations of operation on a data set, which work towards some kind of optimisation target ("more T"), or are there few iterations/less mutation ("more F")?

This is a brief introduction to my view on how MBTI is supposed to work, given my interest in information systems. The mapping as above is of course, imperfect, and needs to be fleshed out a bit with notions of emotional experience which the F is supposed to stand for - my approach simply makes no difference between emotion and thought, referring to "emotional" people as preferring to iterate less on their data.

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